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Archive TitlesZoom in, zoom out by Sarah Brownlee
Where’s the summer gone? It’s absolutely pouring down (well, it is as Zoom goes to press, anyway) and poor old Hull has been in a right old mess.
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Das Englischer Haus
It’s taken more than a century but finally one of the most influential architecture books ever, The English House by Hermann Muthesius, is available in full three-volume translation.
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Vive la difference
What a welcome relief it was to read Gavin Stamp’s article ‘Good riddance’ (RIBAJ July 07).
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RFH frontage is dull
When we built the Royal Festival Hall, the war and the period of austerity could be put behind us. We looked forward – tentatively, but hopefully – to a better Britain.
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Archive TitlesExterior views
‘Is this a chair?’ enquires one elderly American visitor of her equally elderly friend. ‘Er, I think it must be,’ comes the uncertain response. ‘Well, it doesn’t look very comfortable.’
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Short-term gains
Working on temporary structures allows architects to develop ideas that go beyond the conventional, says Simon Beames.
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Archive TitlesGimme shelter
Corrugated iron is often associated with poverty and ugliness, but it is its cheapness and versatility that have made it such a ubiquitous material for temporary shelter – plus it makes a terrific children’s hideaway.
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Archive TitlesGoing from strength to strength
This is my last president’s column so I thought I should reflect on what the RIBA team has achieved in my term.
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Innovation in a hurry
I was studying architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic in 1950 and one of our studio masters was working on the Royal Festival Hall at the LCC.
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Archive TitlesKings of the road
ESS supplies structures to rock stars and Urban Salon is fascinated by temporary architecture. When they collaborate, it’s quite a double act.
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Archive TitlesLetter from... the Urban Oasis
For a travelling temporary structure, anywhere it hangs its hat is its home. Laurie Chetwood updates us on the peripatetic life of his power-generating, rain-harvesting kinetic sustainability totem.
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Archive TitlesTechno palace
Asia’s first Expo, held in Osaka in 1970, was a paean to technological innovation with an orgiastic riot of pavilions assailing visitors visually and aurally.
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Archive TitlesPrice revealed
At last, a book that tells us about Cedric Price the man. And it’s a ripping yarn, says Will Alsop
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Archive TitlesWe recommend...
Exit to Tomorrow: World’s Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005. Andrew Garn, Universe, £23
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Archive TitlesSuddenly this summer
While architects theorise about instant cities, Glastonbury festival founder Michael Eavis just gets on and does it, year after year. Eat your heart out, Archigram. Photographs: Steve Speller